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Notebook Was Drawn From Documents in KGB Archival File 43173, Volume 1, An Organizational and
Notebook Was Drawn From Documents in KGB Archival File 43173, Volume 1, An Organizational and
Notebook Was Drawn From Documents in KGB Archival File 43173, Volume 1, An Organizational and
When composing his notebooks Alexander Vassiliev preceded each section with the KGB archival
file number, volume number, and a title or brief description of the subject matter of the file from which he
was extracting or summarizing material. Below is an guide where notebook pages are linked to the file
from which the notebook content was derived. For example, the material on page 45 of the Black
Notebook was drawn from documents in KGB archival file 43173, volume 1, an Organizational and
Operational file of the United States. Material on page 134 of White Notebook #1 was drawn from file
24957, volume 1, a personal file for KGB officer Vasily Zarubin.
Black Notebook
Organizational and Operational Files for the United States, 1933-1951
White Notebook #1
pp. 1-15: file 35112, v.1. (file 35112 is New York Station - Moscow Center Correspondence, 1941-1947)
pp. 16-21: file 35112 v.4.
pp. 21-29: file 35112 v.4a.
pp. 29: file 35112 v.6.
pp. 30-42: file 35112 v.6.
pp. 43-54: file 35112 v.7.
pp. 54-57: file 35112 v.2.
pp. 57-62: file 35112 v.8.
pp. 62-63: file 35112 v.7.
pp. 63-76: file 35112 v.9.
pp. 77: file 35112 v.7.
pp. 77: file 35112 v.8.
pp. 77-79: file 35112 v.9.
pp. 79- 84: file 35112 v.3.
pp. 85-102: file 28612 v.1. “Announcer” – William Donovan and OSS.
pp. 102-105: file 28612, v.2. “Announcer” – William Donovan and OSS.
pp. 106-119: file 40129 v.3a. XY line correspondence, 1943-1944
pp. 119-122: file 40129 v.4. XY line correspondence, 1943-1944
pp. 122-131: file 34194. (Archive 32428) “Gennady” – Gayk Ovakimyan.
p. 132: file 9995. “Nikolay” – Peter Gutzeit.
pp. 133: file 25136. “Luka” – Pavel Pastelnyak / Pavel Klarin.
pp. 133-134: file 24957 v.1. “Betty”/“Maxim” – Vasily Zarubin.
p. 135: file 25748 v.1. “Grisha”/“Charon” – Grigory Kheifets.
pp. 135-138: file 25748 v.2. “Grisha”/“Charon” – Grigory Kheifets.
pp. 139-156: file 70994. “Sound” – Jacob Golos.
Three unnumbered blank pages
p. 157-159: file 17407, v.1.
White Notebook #2
White Notebook #3
Yellow Notebook #1
Yellow Notebook #2
Yellow Notebook #4
Odd Pages